Re: RFC: Making the xfs font server optional in Fedora Core and its derivatives.

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Mike A. Harris (mharris@xxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> >IIRC, delegating font rendering to xfs was just a workaround
> >to avoid hanging X for too long while loading fonts with lots
> >of glyphs (e.g. kanji fonts).
> 
> That was more or less one of the primary reasons, however several
> people for years now claim that it is no longer a real issue.

I believe one of the other reasons was that adding it to the
server's path at runtime was somewhat of a PITA (moreover, 
it required mucking directly with the server config file.)

Bill

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